Tuesday, 22 October 2024

*** PODCAST #164 Concealer ***


    On the heels of 'dissonance [all that keeps me away]' and the precipice of 'Heartfelt Entries', Florida's CONCEALER is turning a lot of heads, including mine. Halfway through the opening track on their debut EP I fell to my knees and thanked the god of metallic screamo...then asked if I could release it. When they responded they also included two new jams that really kicked my ass. So, in lieu of the Zegema Beach release, I bring you this sick podcast. Some things discussed: Runescape music videos, rock class, Concealer secrets revealed!, playing in Bury Your Idols / Greystone / Breathless / Sense Of Urgency, Jordan is forever, fake shoegaze, getting roundhoused in the balls by Connie from SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Saosin vs. Circa Survive, etc. Bands played in this podcast: The Bled, Botch, Circa Survive, Constrain, Examination Of The..., SeeYouSpaceCowboy, and Since By Man. Listen to podcast #164 which is available to stream and/or download for free via this link.


CONCEALER
Bandcamp


1 Santa Claus' Rock Class
BOTCH "Transitions From Persona to Object" (Jonathan)

2 Spinkick to the Balls
SEEYOUSPACECOWBOY "The End to a Brief Moment of Lasting Intimacy" (Justin)
CONSTRAIN "The Dairy Crimes I've Committed Against My Stomach" (Dave) [official music video]
CIRCA SURVIVE "In Fear and Faith" (Tristan)

3 Death By Genre
THE BLED "The Last American Cowboy" (Joe)
EXAMINATION OF THE... "Each Lust in Prada" (Evan)
SINCE BY MAN "Push the Panic" (Dave) [official music video]


~Dave

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Saturday, 19 October 2024

*** SMUSH + ALUMINUM + BILL CAN + BIG CITY live show review***

SMUSH / ALUMINUM

BILL CAN / BIG CITY


@Red Gate in Vancouver on July 19th, 2024

Live Show Review

     After learning that SMUSH was taking a break from live shows for at least the remainder of 2024 I ensured I booked a ferry and made the 3-hour trek to Vancouver so I could catch them one last time (at least for the foreseeable future). I got their early to distro and hung out with a bunch of local scene people and the bands...it was awesome. The real steal of the show was seeing ALUMINUM though, as I'd never heard of them and immediately bought all the digitals from bandcamp upon arriving home the next day.

     I'm also elated to let everyone know that the SMUSH 12"s for 'if you were here i'd be home now' finally came in so at this point all pre-orders have shipped. We sold over half of the pressing during the pre-order timeframe so if you like what you hear please pick up a copy (linked here, with cheaper ZBR store links at the bottom of the bandcamp page).

     Lastly, the band did both an interview with Idioteq.com and a podcast with (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))). Click on this text for the Idioteq.com interview and/or listen to the podcast below.



SMUSH
     As always, SMUSH freakin' rocked. Great atmosphere. Great instrumentals. Great vocals. Great people. Hell yeah. After seeing their release show, this five-song set left me aching for more but I'm glad I got a good fix of them with some of faves including "goodnight moon", "if we didn't cry", and "horse drawing". Reminder! 12"LPs are now in and shipping from Softseed Music!!!

(2024) SMUSH "new house" (live in Vancouver)
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ALUMINUM
     "Hey Dave, please compare ALUMINUM to other bands."
     Hmmmm that feels kinda hard because their 80s rock + 90s alternative + shoegaze + indie rock melting pot is so damn original it'd be blasphemy to start saying "they sound like this band" or "they sound like that band". All I know is that it's both heavy and beautiful with two vocalists, making the juxtaposition of sounds that much more obvious. Definitely the highlight of the night for me, they were fucking awesome. I should also note that there were many more songs they played that I enjoyed more than the ones I took videos of, it was just luck of the draw.

(2024) ALUMINUM "Always Here, Never There" (live in Vancouver)
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BILL CAN
     This Vancouver-based band is fun and quirky, bringing some pretty sweet licks and playful vocals. Kinda jazzy with elements of dancey and classic rock. Also their name is spelled wrong on the poster.

(2024) BILL CAN (live in Vancouver)
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BIG CITY
     Closing the night was the third of four bands from Vancouver, as this two-piece took my brain to a new level. Genres be damned, this was equally jarring and mesmerizing.

(2024) BIG CITY (live in Vancouver)
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next Dave show (aka I play in WOLLRUSS & this is our first show):


October 19th in Victoria
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Wednesday, 16 October 2024

*** PODCAST #163 AJ Currier (Colacon, Holly Caught A Contact High) ***

photo: Bret Backus


    In 2022 I met AJ Currier and his crew waiting outside of the ZBR Fest pre-show and we all hit it off instantly. The following year Tomb Tree helped release both COLACON and HOLLY CAUGHT A CONTACT HIGH on cassette. In 2024 COLACON played ZBR Fest and Tomb Tree released their debut album on 12". So obviously this podcast is a long time coming. Besides talking about those bands and being generally hilarious/informative, he also touched on: playing in Scarlet O'Hara/Madelyn Pryor/RaiseUp!/With Winter Upon Us/Kerberos, mispronouncing COLACON, screaming in cars, Psyopus melts the brain, working 94.5 hours in one week, COLACON's first show, ZBR Fest through the years, trusting strangers, defining "slam", the story of the vaulted Senza material and a new jam, accidentally anonymous, Sean Klotz the Hype Man, High Pitch Rich, upcoming Vamonos Tapes news, etc. Bands played in this podcast: Clot, Detach The Islands, Graf Orlock, Peeling Flesh, Rorcal, and Senza. Listen to podcast #163 which is available to stream and/or download for free via this link.

COLACON
Bandcamp


HOLLY CAUGHT A CONTACT HIGH
Bandcamp


Colacon 12"s


1 Setting Things On Fire
RORCAL "Under the Nails" (AJ)
DETACH THE ISLANDS "A Highly Magnified History" (Dave)

2 Siphoning Off Math Grind
PEELING FLESH "Shoot 2 Kill" (AJ)
SENZA "Scrap the Waste" (Dave)

3 I've Watched Breaking Bad 22 Times
GRAF ORLOCK "Border Crossing" (Dave)
CLOT "Fucking Rot" (AJ)


~Dave

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COLACON "Gales of Contempt" music video
https://youtu.be/gICyDodyHiM


HOLLY CAUGHT A CONTACT HIGH "Hello Mr. Wolynetz" music video
https://youtu.be/Jdd6dLgkpFE


Upcoming COLACON shows:



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Saturday, 12 October 2024

*** GXLLIUM! exclusive song premiere ***

"Axel Peart"
exclusive song premiere
For fans of: Rex Kwon Do, .gif from god and Me And Him Call It Us

orders open October 15th @9am PST for cassettes via ZBR

     Thank fucking lord the drummer shakeup didn't break this band up and now their back with a new six-song EP appropriately titled 'Breakup songs' minus two members plus one new one. There's tapes from ZBR going up on October 15th @9am PST but we only had time to pump out 35 before the release, so once those are gone we'll make another 100 easy. Seriously, you are not ready for this EP! The band gave some insight, read below:

"This is the last song we wrote with our last drummer before disbanding with him, a song we were really proud of, thinking it was gone forever! Till we fortunately invited our good friend Tanner to be the new drummer and finished the song with everyone collaborating on it. The song is named after Tanner's dog, Axel Peart. Trying to find a title when we finished mixing, we looked around Tanner's living room and decided that Axel was way too cool of a dog to not name it after him. This song goes out to Tanner for helping us keep this band alive <3"

(2024) GXLLIUM! "Axel Peart" (from 'Breakup songs')

     Right from the get-go GXLLIUM! goes immediately for the jugular with chaotic instrumentals that harness a lot of panic chords, blast beats, and wonky, almost Psyopus-esque guitar originality. After the initial minute of headfuckery, the song shifts into a lot slides and breakdowns before cutting out faraway, haunted screams and minimal instrumentals until 1:43 when the song combines the dreamy soft with the devastatingly heavy and it's fucking beautiful. The final minute is more epic in nature and focuses more on tying up the song instead of constant jaw-drops. Lyrics below!

you had me, you had me
You're left behind and you wonder why

Live
Laugh
As I live in your house
As we paint our picture
Death
Cry
As I live in my car
Outside of your house
A comically places static television
Alone
In the room I got for us
I hear your feet over thresholds
As you binge hotel rooms
Your moans ring like greeting cards in my ribcage
Your pictures are Christmas ornaments
Taken down on a February afternoon
Being so young love dies so soon
Blow up the sun like I’ve never fucking seen it before
Crash the car like I’ve never even loved you before
If god seen what you done he would take you out himself
If god loved me he would kill you at my fucking request



ADDITIONAL LINKS & WHATNOT
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Friday, 11 October 2024

REX KWON DO

Band: REX KWON DO
For fans of: Hayworth, .gif from god, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Kiowa, Me And Him Call It Us, Onewaymirror, Thank  You Driver, and Antarctica.
Genres: Punk / Hardcore / Metalcore / Metallic Hardcore / Math Metal / Mathcore / Screamo / Skramz / Emo-violence / Mosh
Related artists: ?.
Country: Hayward, California U.S.A.
Years Active: 2024-present
Label(s): Self-released

     REX KWON DO gets their name from the almighty Napoleon Dynamite and released their 'Demo' in fall 2024 and I'm in love. These four jams are chaotic, mathy, heavy, and shrieky as fuck. Imagine Me And Him Call It Us, Hayworth, and Kiowa
 in a blender. Shit slaps super hard, like in the opener "Don't Let the Door Hit You Where the Good Lord Split Ya" at 1:14 when the bass drop goes off as an explosion and blowing out all other instruments, then everything slowly increases in volume again as the speakers regain their ability to produce sound. It's fucking awesome and I have yet to hear anything like it. Closer "Thugs, Drugs, and the War on Bugs" brings in the screamo/emo-violence crossover that warranted the Kiowa comparison and is my vote for best song on the EP, especially that quiet and brooding intro and all those dual vox. Easily one of the best demos of the year!!!

     I would love to release this and whatever they do next, so in the off chance they read this please hit me up at zegemabeachrecord@gmail.com

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(2024) REX KWON DO - "Thugs, Drugs, and the War on Bugs" (from 'Demo')
https://youtu.be/lI5CkPJ34DA

(2024) REX KWON DO - "Don't Let the Door Hit You Where the Good Lord Split Ya" (from 'Demo')

(2024) REX KWON DO - "Mocos Song" (from 'Demo')
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Wednesday, 2 October 2024

*** PODCAST #162 Rohan Lilauwala (Respire, Votive, etc.) ***

photo: Andrew Wu


    Since frequenting the Toronto screamo scene in 2012 I have come to know Rohan very well, so it's kinda shameful that it took me this long to have him on the podcast. Rohan played in Delo Truda before I knew him, and got to know him through Foxmoulder, and then Respire. He also co-founded New Friends, which we discussed. A few things other things we touched on: the secret to starting a band, sleeping on Alexisonfire, tenure in Foxmoulder, the mythical legend that is Tower Of Silence, being nobodies, deep-ass cuts, Respire decade run-through, updated visa store, Votive the ninja, riff dish, doxing Heavenly Blue, band ethos and Godspeed! You Black Emperor, thoughts on running fests and retiring, etc. Bands played in this podcast: A Newfound Interest In Connecticut, Amber Daybreak, Carissa's Weird, Chalk Hands, and The Travesty Star. Listen to podcast #162 which is available to stream and/or download for free via this link.

RESPIRE
Bandcamp


VOTIVE
Bandcamp


Respire 12"s

Respire 'Black Line' tapes


1 Once you see how it's done, only then it becomes easy to do it
A NEWFOUND INTEREST IN CONNECTICUT "and started sharing stories" (Rohan)
THE TRAVESTY STAR "We're Not the Impatients" (Dave)

2 Updated Visa Horror Stories
CHALK HANDS "Teeth and Nails" (Rohan)
AMBER DAYBREAK "Burning Seas" (Dave)

3 Turns out I was the special sauce
CARISSA'S WEIRD "September Come Take This Heart Away" (Rohan)


~Dave

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RESPIRE + LOVE LUST interview in Germany
https://youtu.be/KrKoqS4XhQ8

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